Sunday, March 28, 2010

FlashForward Blowback 3/25

I watched the latest episode of FlashForward.  I am definitely interested in the mystery of the flash forward and possible future flash forwards, etc., but I'm having a hard time becoming attached to any of the characters. I like Lloyd and Olivia, but that's about it.  It's not grabbing me—either I don't have enough time to get involved—or I just don't care. 

What I do know is, there seems to be an over emphasis on violence and I had hoped our fascination with gratuitous violence was behind us; but it still continues. In the beginning of the series, I commented on Twitter that I thought one particular masochistic scene of torture and suicide (for those who saw nothing in their flash forwards and thus decided since they were going to be dead anyway, they might as well do something kinky), was a stepping a bit over the line for a show airing at 8:00pm.  

What baffles me, is that the coupling a two gay men on a daytime soap opera that I watch (OLTL), is causing such an uproar that the characters are being eliminated from the story line, even though both actors are exceptionally likeable and excellent actors.  Two main characters of the show are psychopathic, sociopathic, rapist, murderers, but nobody complains about that. It appears that violence is OK, but same-sex couples, definitely not OK. Does that really make any sense?  All My Children had a lesbian storyline and that was okay. Erica Kane has been married ten or twelve times and that's okay.  And, General Hospital has gangster families killing each other and that seems to be okay and is exceptionally popular.

But I digress....

Let's meet back here again next week.  Thanks for visiting!

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